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FEBRUARY 4TH

BIRTHDAYS

1909

Artie Bernstein, Bass

b. New York, NY, USA.

d. 1964
Artie Bernstein (4 February 1909 – 4 January 1964) was an American jazz bassist. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he worked with Benny Goodman, Red Norvo, and others. He won the Down Beat Readers poll in 1943. He died in Los Angeles.Artie Bernstein

1908

Emmanuel "Manny" Klein, Trumpet

b. New York, NY, d. May 31, 1994 at 86

Biography ~by Scott Yanow

One of the busiest trumpeters of the 1930's, Manny Klein appeared on a countless number of recordings (both in jazz settings and quite anonymously) through the decades. Klein started out at the top, recording with Paul Whiteman in 1928 and taking a solo on "Makin' Whoopee" that would normally have been taken by the indisposed Bix Beiderbecke. Klein was on literally hundreds of recordings during the next nine years, playing in a style that was similar to (and often later on mistaken for) Bunny Berigan's. Among the many records that he appeared on were dates led by the Boswell Sisters, the Dorsey Brothers and Benny Goodman plus many dance band sessions for Don Voorhees, Red Nichols, Fred Rich, Roger Wolfe Kahn and others; a complete Manny Klein discography has yet to be assembled.

Manny Klein has a trumpet solo at 2:51.

In 1937 Klein moved to California where, other than some work with the Frankie Trumbauer Orchestra and with Manny Malneck (1939), he was a studio musician for 40 years. Klein occasionally played jazz locally but mostly performed on movie soundtracks (including dubbing for Ziggy Elman in the Benny Goodman Story) where his beautiful tone and versatility were considered major assets. Manny Klein led record dates for Brunswick (1936), Keynote (1946), Coral (1947) and a full album for Imperial (jazz versions of themes from The Sound Of Music in 1959).Manny Klein - WikipediaManny Klein: Information from Answers.com

The "Charleston" was the newest dance craze sweeping the U.S.A. John Giola (of New York City) entered a Charleston endurance dance marathon and became famous by dancing the Charleston, non-stop, for 22 hours and 30 minutes.

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JAZZ AGE RADIO BROADCASTS!

That Gramophone Show showcases real music nostalgia when Neil Starr takes you on a trip down memory lane with music sourced exclusively off 78 RPM shellac records. Music covers anything from 1910 to the late 1950s. Radio Today (@Radio2Day) broadcasts on 1485 AM in Johannesburg and country-wide on DStv audio channel 869.

Join your host, Randy Brian, as he takes you on a time-travelling tour of the 1920s, '30s and '40s with hot jazz, dance bands, comedy and personality discs, big band swing, early blues, and other vintage records that keep alive the Spirit of 78. And there's a middle hour devoted to old-time radio drama and comedy, too.

Description:Glenn Robison's weekly, hour-long radio program of 1920s and 30s pop and jazz. Glenn plays 78 RPM records of "toe-tapping" music from hot dance bands, as well as sweet bands, novelty tunes, soundtracks, blues, jazz and more.

Description:Blues Before Sunrise showcases blues as part of a cultural landscape that includes jump and jive, rhythm and blues, swing, doo wop, gospel, comedy, and recitation, and never is the music presented as kitsch or retro fashion in the way that some music has been exploited and trivialized. For host Steve Cushing, the blues is a living African-American tradition with deep roots.LISTEN

THE IAN WHITCOMB SHOW is a rip-roaring rollercoaster of music from the golden age of Tin Pan Alley and British Music Hall through classic country & western and early R&B up until the British Invasion of the 1960s.

Step into the Club every Friday evening for a sampling of music from "The Jazz Age" with Guy Rathbun. Across the spectrum of pop and jazz from the late teens to the early 1930s, this weekly series invites you the share in the talents and tales of the musicians and performers that created an unforgettable era.

RADIOLA! is foremost a program of the best pop and jazz from the 1920s and 1930s, music which is unavailable anywhere else on local airwaves. These recordings shimmer with wit and levity, brim with deep joy, and beat with the pulse of life.

Every Saturday afternoon, Rob Bamberger stacks his recordings on a luggage cart and makes his way across the river to WAMU and what he calls his perch in studio four. From 8 until 11 p.m., the air is filled with vintage jazz, swing, and big band recordings from the '20s, '30s, and '40s.

jazz [jaz]–noun1. music originating in New Orleans around the beginning of the 20th century and subsequently developing through various increasingly complex styles, generally marked by intricate, propulsive rhythms, polyphonic ensemble playing, improvisatory, virtuosic solos, melodic freedom, and a harmonic idiom ranging from simple diatonicism through chromaticism to atonality.2. a style of dance music, popular esp. in the 1920s, arranged for a large band and marked by some of the features of jazz.3. dancing or a dance performed to such music, as with violent bodily motions and gestures.4. Slang. liveliness; spirit; excitement.